IDEA External Student IP Writing Competition 2025 Winners

IDEA®: The Law Review of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property is very happy to announce the winners of our Annual IDEA Student Intellectual Property Writing Competition. This year, we sought thought-provoking and publishable papers addressing critical issues in intellectual property law.

Congratulation to our 2025 winners:

1st Place: Annalis Masters – “Confusion or Just Contention? How Luxury Fashion Brands Are Capitalizing on Trademark Law’s Nominative Fair Use Defense” 
School:  University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco 

2nd Place: Abhishek Chakrabarti – “The Deepfake Plague: Legal Gaps and Regulating AI”
School: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

We extend our sincere congratulations to both winners for their outstanding contributions to the field!